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I don’t collect a “candy tax.” The candy tax is a parenting trend where you purport to teach your kids about responsibility by stealing some of their candy levying a “tax” on their trick or treat loot. The tax can be as much as one-third of the candy “earned” on Halloween. The tax, which is levied in jest, is meant to teach a lesson about how government works. Only it’s not remotely comparable to the real thing. There are a few key concepts in the levying of the candy tax that don’t translate into the real world. Here they are.